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Understanding potential impacts of Marine Geo-engineering

A new GESAMP working group on marine geo-engineering held its first
meeting at IMO Headquarters, London (23-25 May).

The overall objective of the Working Group (WG 41) is to better understand
the potential impacts of proposed marine geo-engineering techniques on the
marine environment, including social and economic consequences.

The Group will also provide advice to the London Protocol Parties to
assist them in identifying those marine geo-engineering techniques that may be
sensible to be considered for listing in the new Annex 4 of the Protocol.

The Working Group, established at the forty-second session of GESAMP,
held in Paris last year, is being led by IMO with the support from IOC of
UNESCO and WMO.

This first, inception meeting, under the chairmanship of Dr. Chris Vivian
(United Kingdom) and Professor Philip Boyd (Australia), included scientists
from Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Group will deliver an initial high level assessment report to the
nine UN Sponsoring Agencies which make up GESAMP, in 2017